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Following up from last month’s post, here’s the other half of why I founded Cloud Dine Systems.

I did it to create the change I want to see in the world and to make a place I would love working at.

Most business organizations today are hierarchical. I call them Taylor organizations since Frederick Winslow Taylor pioneered their workings around the turn of the century in “The Principles of Scientific Management”. They focus on specialization, top down communication, and foremost, efficiency. Unfortunately, they are characterized by slow reactions, turf wars, unempowered employees, and poor communication. It’s very difficult for these types of organizations to innovate.

The world is changing more quickly than ever and Industrial Age, Taylor organizations cannot keep up. The Information Age requires a new type of organization.

Financially transparent through open book accounting with every partner sharing in the profits and held accountable by their peers.

This type of organization is much more nimble, empowering, and ultimately, I believe, more profitable than traditional Taylor organizations. Part of the reason I founded Cloud Dine Systems is to prove this and create a place I love to work at.

A wave of enabling technologies recently came into existence that will allow restaurants to be run in radically more profitable and customer focused way. Cloud Dine was created to bring the potential of these technologies into reality.

Longer version:

Recent innovations in technology have created sweeping changes in the possibilities for how restaurants operate. The list of changes coming together is amazing. Just to name a few: commodity hardware in the form of consumer off the shelf tablets, ubiquitous wi-fi wireless networks, cloud technologies, internet enabled smartphones, inexpensive internet connectivity, remote management technologies. These changes and others combine to create the foundation for a revolution.

Cloud Dine Systems was founded to utilize these enabling technologies and revolutionize the restaurant business.

So why should you care as a restaurateur? Because these coming changes will increase your profitability and efficiency. The last significant technology adopted by restaurants was the change from paper based systems to computer based point of sale systems. This increased the net profitability of restaurants by 1 to 3 percent. The upcoming revolution will have a similar impact and then some.

I believe these changes will reduce the horrible restaurant failure rate (by some counts 70% fail within ten years), reduce the need for 80-100 hour weeks with the associated burnout, and give restaurant owners and staff some of their life back. The potential to make a positive impact on millions of lives is a lot of the reason why this is worth doing and why I’m doing it.